Omar Sharif or Omar El-Sharif (rear RTL عمرالشريف), (born the April 10th 1932 with Alexandria, Egypt), of its true name Michel Shalhoub , is a Egyptian Acteur of Lebanese origin .

Biography

  • 1932 : birth, on April 10th, with Alexandria (Egypt) of Michel Shalhoub , in an easy family (her father is invaluable wood merchant) and loving, of religion Catholique. It converts later with the Islam in order to be able to marry Faten Hamama.

  • It goes to the British Collège Victoria of the Cairo where it studies mathematics, physics, French and five other languages, that it usually speaks.
  • After having obtained a diploma in mathematics and physics, it works during five years in the company of invaluable woodwork of his/her father, before going to study off the trade of Acteur to prestigious the Royal Academy Dramatic Art of London .
  • 1954 : it is 22 years old, of return in Egypt, it is discovered by its compatriot, the scenario writer Youssef Chahine, who makes it begin in the demon from the desert under the name of Omar El Sharif .
  • 1956 : Youssef Chahine makes it play in black Water , in a high-speed motorboat role, vis-a-vis the star Egyptian woman of the time Faten Hamama. The film is presented to the Cannes festival, where it obtains its first praises. In Egypt, Omar El Sharif becomes large a star of the cinema by holding the high-speed motorboat of 26 Egyptian films.
  • It marries Faten Hamama, with which it has a son, which increases its popularity in the Arab world. He will divorce her in 1968, and will not remariera itself.
  • 1962 : it is 30 years old when it plays the part of the prince of the desert Ali Ibn Kharish in its first Western and international film: Lawrence of Arabia of David Lean with Peter O' Toole, under the name of Omar Sharif , role which is worth an immediate world-famous personality to him, as well as a Award Golden Globe of the best actor in a supporting role 1963, a nomination with the Oscar of the Best supporting role 1963, a beginning of career of international actor, and a place in the legend of the world cinema. It settles then with his son with Hollywood, where it signs a seven year old contract with the Studios Hollywood Columbia Pictures and separates from his wife by mutual agreement, in spite of their feelings, for " incompatibility of the life of couple with the life of actor international"
  • 1965 : He repeats with a world triumph in Doctor Jivago of David Lean, for whom he obtained a second Award Golden Globe of the Best Actor 1965 for his role of the Russian poet doctor Youri Jivago
  • He plays then in more than 60 American and French films (...) with Anthony Quinn, Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Barbra Streisand, Henri Verneuil…
  • 1999: he plays in the 13th Warrior of John McTiernan
  • 2003: he plays a philosophical grocer in Mr Ibrahim and the flowers of Coran of François Dupeyron, role for which he is rewarded by the César for the Best Actor 2004 and is nominated with the Award Golden Globe of Best Foreign film 2004
  • 2005: he doubles the Aslan lion in the French adaptation of the science fiction film Le Monde de Narnia: chapter 1 - the lion, the white witch and the magic closet .
He had been condemned in 2001 to one month of suspended sentence to have given a blow of head to a police officer in a casino close to Paris. The Egyptian actor Omar Sharif was condemned Tuesday, February 13, 2007 to two years of testing period by a judge of Beverly Hills (California, west), after having pled guilty of aggression against carrying in 2005.

Bridge

  • Omar Sharif is one of the most famous players of Bridge of the world. It signed a book of bridge as well as comments on give for several newspapers, of which Le Figaro in France.

  • With the '' Olympiades of Bridge of Deauville, it represented the team of Egypt, opposed to that of the world champion Giorgio Belladonna. A few years later, it is vis-a-vis this n°1 world that Omar Sharif makes an international round with the Lancia TEAM. In each city, a car was offered to the player, it gained twenty-four of them there…
  • It also gave its name to several video games, and he attends assiduously the casino S French.

He is also known to be fan of horses and races and can often be seen in the French hippodromes. For this reason it had been selected to make the publicity of the PMU during several years while returning the slogan " the races, it is my great passion! " famous.

He saw since years, of which several free, in a Parisian hotel.

Justice with Los Angeles, for aggravated assault. Omar Sharif has " put a blow of boule" to carrying a Guatemalan the June 11th 2005… in 2001 already, it was led pareillement, in Paris region, vis-a-vis a police officer. -->

Quotations

  • My Philosophie of the Vie is very easy to retain: when you leave on your premise, it is necessary to be ready to like everyone

  • I am somebody of nice and I am interested in people more than with anything else. It is perhaps due to the fact that I was born in a country, the Egypt, where there are the most beautiful ruins of the world, the most beautiful stones, the Temple S, the pyramid S… Blow, when I am some share, I am diverted museums to go towards people. It is undoubtedly for this reason that I chose to be an actor: to speak with all and sundry inspires to me.
  • David Lean was like my father! I was like his son. He adored me: I had spent twenty month with him for Lawrence of Arabia
  • the play arrived because of the life that I carried out. I unloaded in a city, I did not know anybody, even not people with whom I turned. An assistant deposited me with the hotel. Where did you want that I go? I was alone, then I was going to dine with the casino on the hotel because there is light and that one can only dine in a casino without being ridiculous. Obviously, I passed there the evening and I drew a chart. In any event, I mistake the money. As soon as I have some, I spend it. On the other hand, when I do not have any, I of insane. Instead of eating in a three-star restaurant, I go to the brewery of to side, I take a sandwich ham butters with a beer, and I am very content.
  • I was intimate with Jacques Prévert, a man whom I adored. He had the cig with the nozzle and always spoke about bottom. Whereas he had written so beautiful things
  • After Lawrence of Arabia, I played in And came the day from the revenge on Fred Zinnemann Francisco with Gregory Peck and Anthony Quinn, on the Guerre of Spain. Certainly my best role. Unfortunately, the film did not go. Then I turned for Sidney Lumet with Anouk Aimée. Presented to the Cannes festival in 1968, return It hooted itself. Then, there was the Riders John Frankenheimer. But it was never the best film of the realizer. After four or five failures, I had died. As I had enormous expenses, I accepted anything. That disgusted me, because I am unfortunately enough intelligent not to like the silly thing

Catalog of films

External bond

  • Video games of Bridge of Omar Sharif: Omar Sharif Bridge II
  • Radioscopy of Omar Sharif Ina Files Tele

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